^__^ Right now I subscribe to the highly-stressed woman's version of Occam's Razor: instead of "what's not essential is extraneous," it's "what's not easy is extraneous." If exercise/dieting doesn't save time and/or integrate seamlessly into the whirlwind of my life, it's far less likely to get remembered/done.
So if I can make the exercise-and-diet stuff fit in to what I'm already doing, hopefully it'll keep getting done enough to get my liver happier to let the doctor let me take pain pills again! Surgery without pain pills afterwards is something I am massively hoping to avoid... *headdesk*
I cannot imagine what the aftermath of surgery would be like sans pain pills. And I absolutely don't want you to find out.
If you need a good laugh, check out this site: http://lovelylisting.com OMG. I have never seen such atrocious things done to poor real estate in my life. The decorating choices some people make......I feel so much better about our neighbors now. Even the dude who thinks he's a race car driver.
You might check out Weight Watchers recipes for cooking at home, because I believe that they've got things like calories and the like already figured out for you.
*grins* My mother's made bracelets that are like that, for similar purposes. They really make sense! ^_^
I'm actually pretty cranky about Weight Watchers at the moment, or at least Applebee's interpretation of them -- Applebee's is making a huge to-do about their healthy WW-approved menu, but they've translated everything into "points" that there's no way to un-translate into actual calories and fat grams and so forth. So my friends keep trying to take me there because it's supposed to have "healthy" options that still let them eat as much "sinful" stuff as they like. Which is great for people who don't have to care what they're eating! But when I ask about their actual nutrition information, both the waitress and the assistant manager looked at me like I'm stupid and told me I could just eat anything off the Weight Watchers menu because it was all supposed to be good for you.
It doesn't work that way when you have to count specific calories, not "points," and are under restrictions for both fat grams and carbohydrates. Growr. ^^;;; It's just irritating when places make such a huge promotion out of how "healthy" their food is and then
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Even better: weight watching rosaries with pause buttons. 'Cause the trouble with rosaries is that they don't have a marking system, they assume you're doing the whole thing at once. XD (yes I checked out rosaries while looking for my portable abacus idea...)
Damn, you got a point there. Come to think of it, I'm reminded of the Incan knotted thread calendar system.
Also. I just had an idea! You know, if you have the time (one of these days) you should consider making bracelets and selling them on etsy, or some other online venue. gjkg Like, you could market them as calorie counting bracelets! It would be potentially ... awesome, I think.
I really love the idea of those bracelets. Another inexpensive option for exercise equipment are a set of wrist/ankle weights. You could wear them to increase the resistance while peddling. I wear a pair around the house and you can really feel the difference after a few hours walking around especially if you do any stairs. I also use them at my computer as wrist weights while reading. I set up the page to read and as I go down the page I do curls then I page down and either rest or do another set of exercises. After a while you don't even have to think about the movements. Only problem is they are too bulky for typing while wearing and weighted gloves caused me wrist strain when I tried them. Hope your doctor approves you for pain meds before your surgery. Good luck and best wishes.
I think I'd probably better avoid the leg weights -- both of my parents, all of my living aunts and uncles, and several of my great aunts and unckes have had knee replacements, so I'm not so much with the "add extra strain / pressure to knee joints" options. That's one of the reasons I aim at walking/biking instead of jogging/aerobic stuff - too much thumping around and my knees go on strike!
When I add up the number of mechanical failures I've got going and factor in the fact that according to all probability I shouldn't have lived to see my first birthday and it's a miracle I'm not blind and retarded (born several months too early way too many years ago, spent too much time on pure oxygen before they knew that was bad)... yeah, my model's got the "reject" sticker stamped all over it. Too bad the warranty's expired. XD
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So if I can make the exercise-and-diet stuff fit in to what I'm already doing, hopefully it'll keep getting done enough to get my liver happier to let the doctor let me take pain pills again! Surgery without pain pills afterwards is something I am massively hoping to avoid... *headdesk*
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I cannot imagine what the aftermath of surgery would be like sans pain pills. And I absolutely don't want you to find out.
If you need a good laugh, check out this site: http://lovelylisting.com OMG. I have never seen such atrocious things done to poor real estate in my life. The decorating choices some people make......I feel so much better about our neighbors now. Even the dude who thinks he's a race car driver.
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I think my brain threw a cog somewhere around the bloodstained mattress with something that looks disturbingly corpselike piled on it. ...meeeeep.
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*grins* My mother's made bracelets that are like that, for similar purposes. They really make sense! ^_^
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It doesn't work that way when you have to count specific calories, not "points," and are under restrictions for both fat grams and carbohydrates. Growr. ^^;;; It's just irritating when places make such a huge promotion out of how "healthy" their food is and then ( ... )
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Also. I just had an idea! You know, if you have the time (one of these days) you should consider making bracelets and selling them on etsy, or some other online venue. gjkg Like, you could market them as calorie counting bracelets! It would be potentially ... awesome, I think.
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When I add up the number of mechanical failures I've got going and factor in the fact that according to all probability I shouldn't have lived to see my first birthday and it's a miracle I'm not blind and retarded (born several months too early way too many years ago, spent too much time on pure oxygen before they knew that was bad)... yeah, my model's got the "reject" sticker stamped all over it. Too bad the warranty's expired. XD
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